Re: template member specialization of template class

From:
Ondra Holub <ondra.holub@post.cz>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Thu, 21 Feb 2008 23:41:31 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID:
<b854754c-12ae-4c19-9813-448a3addd2aa@n75g2000hsh.googlegroups.com>
On 22 =DAn, 08:10, toton <abirba...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,
 How can I specialize a template member function for a template class.
eg, I have a tuple like class
enum dir_type{
  dir_x,dir_y};

template< typename C>
class pair_type{
        typedef C value_type;
        typedef pair_type<C> self_type;
private:
        value_type x_;
        value_type y_;
public:
        pair_type(const value_type& x,const value_type& y) : x_(x),y_(y){}=

        template<dir_type d>
        value_type& get();

};

and want to call like
typedef pair_type<int> PT;
PT p(10,12);
int x = p.get<dir_x>();

now I want to specialize template<dir_type d> value_type& get() for
dir_x and dir_y, without specializing class pair_type for C.
1) is it possible ? if, then what is the syntax ?
2) if possible, can I write such specializations in the header file
directly ?
3) if not possible, in which way I can do this (like the way boost
tuple returns, only instead of get<1> etc, I want to have the enums as
the name i.e get<dir_x>()

any help is appreciated.
thanks
abir


Hi.

It would be something like

template<typename C>
template<>
pair_type<C>::value_type& get<dir_x>()
{
}

However I think it is not possible. As workaround you can create some
structure containing static method providing required functionality. I
think example is better:

enum dir_type
{
    dir_x,dir_y
};

template< typename C>
class pair_type;

template<typename C, dir_type d>
struct GetImplementation
{
    static inline typename pair_type<C>::value_type& get()
    {
        // Default implementation
    }
};

template<typename C>
struct GetImplementation<C, dir_x>
{
    static inline typename pair_type<C>::value_type& get()
    {
        // Specialized implementation
    }
};

template< typename C>
class pair_type
{
public:
    typedef C value_type;
    typedef pair_type<C> self_type;
private:
    value_type x_;
    value_type y_;
public:
    pair_type(const value_type& x,const value_type& y) : x_(x),y_(y){}

    template<dir_type d>
    value_type& get()
    {
        return GetImplementation<C, d>::get();
    }

};

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